Contains Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" about a scientist who creates a monster from various dead bodies and H. G. Wells's "The Island of Doctor Moreau" in which victims of a shipwreck in the Pacific discover an island ruled by an ominous scientist who performs ghastly genetic experiments which change animals into grotesque, partially human creatures, and includes a selection of essays on themes in the two novels.
year: 2003
call number/section: 828.8
subjects: english literature, history and criticism, gothic novels, horror fiction, science fiction, epistolary fiction, geneva (switzerland), fiction